@article{347117,
      recid = {347117},
      author = {Israel, Jonathan,},
      title = {The Dutch Republic : its rise, greatness and fall,  1477-1806 /},
      publisher = {Clarendon Press,},
      address = {Oxford :},
      pages = {xxx, 1231 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {1995},
      abstract = {The Dutch Golden Age - the age of Grotius, Spinoza,  Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists  and writers, was also remarkable for its immense impact in  the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology.  It was in fact one of the most spectacularly creative  episodes in the history of the world. In this book,  Jonathan Israel gives the definitive account of the  emergence of the United Provinces as a great power, and  explains its subsequent decline in the eighteenth century.  He places the thought, politics, religion, and social  developments of the Golden Age in their broad context, and  examines the changing relationship between the northern  Netherlands and the south, which was to develop into modern  Belgium. One of the principal aims of the book is to  provide a new type of integrated history which draws the  different dimensions of the discipline firmly together in  strictly non-technical language. The result is a  comprehensive and lucid account as useful to the reader  primarily interested in artistic and cultural history as to  the student who needs a survey of the Republic's  institutions, class structure, and economic development. At  the same time it will provide an invaluable aid to scholars  interested in new research and new interpretations.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/347117},
}